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Jieyang Chaoshan International Airport

Shantou, CN

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Jieyang Chaoshan International Airport

Jieyang, China · Asia-Pacific

Guangdong's fourth million-pax airport is one 3F hall with 揭阳机场站 at the east curb — the tradeoff is a 35-minute CZ desk, a snack-grade Priority Pass CIP unless you are on CZ metal, and a single 3,200 m strip next to 外砂.

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7.4/ 10

Solid

Ease of use7.6
Comfort & amenities7.2
Food & retail7.2
Ground access8.4
Reliability6.6
Lounges7.0

How the score works

An editorial 0–10 score. The overall is exactly the weighted sum of six traveler categories — not a Google rating and not a poll.

25%Ease of use — Wayfinding, security wait, and layout.
20%Comfort & amenities — Seating, Wi-Fi, cleanliness, and quiet.
15%Food & retail — Food and retail quality and variety.
15%Ground access — Transit, taxi, and parking to the city.
15%Reliability — Delays, cancellations, and weather resilience.
10%Lounges — Worth-it density and access quality.

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SWAZGOWNormal

Jieyang Chaoshan International Airport

Jieyang, China · Asia-Pacific

Guangdong's fourth million-pax airport is one 3F hall with 揭阳机场站 at the east curb — the tradeoff is a 35-minute CZ desk, a snack-grade Priority Pass CIP unless you are on CZ metal, and a single 3,200 m strip next to 外砂.

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7.4/ 10

Solid

Ease of use7.6
Comfort & amenities7.2
Food & retail7.2
Ground access8.4
Reliability6.6
Lounges7.0

How the score works

An editorial 0–10 score. The overall is exactly the weighted sum of six traveler categories — not a Google rating and not a poll.

25%Ease of use — Wayfinding, security wait, and layout.
20%Comfort & amenities — Seating, Wi-Fi, cleanliness, and quiet.
15%Food & retail — Food and retail quality and variety.
15%Ground access — Transit, taxi, and parking to the city.
15%Reliability — Delays, cancellations, and weather resilience.
10%Lounges — Worth-it density and access quality.

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Arrive
35 min
before international flights
Typical security
12 min
editorial average, not live
Fastest to city
~30–50 min to Shantou / Jieyang / Chaozhou, traffic depending (~22–29 km)
Official taxi curb door 4
Cheapest to city
揭阳机场站 (梅汕铁路)
leftover 二等座 ¥12 / 一等 ¥19 on the public timetable · ~11–15 min to 潮汕站 (public leftover ~08:33–22:11)
Lounges
3
2 rated worth it
Terminals
One main hall, 3F check-in (one 4E runway; 揭阳机场站 on the east curb)

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Editorial profile notes — not a live alert feed. Live operations are on Overview and in the panel below.

Published alerts

Typical operations snapshot — editorial, not live news. File dated Sep 20, 2026.

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CAAC leftover 2025 放行 is unpublished for this field. Profile stores 0.

T2 and the second runway are not live. One 3,200 m 04/22 strip is the passenger campus. 9 Jul 2025 leftover lightning closed the runway one night and reopened the same night.

240-hour TWOV applies. Skip-immigration does not.

Do not merge leftover T2-as-live, leftover dual-runway-as-live, leftover ZGOW as a public slug, leftover 汕头外砂 as a passenger hall, leftover 潮汕站 as the airport station, leftover Wikipedia 18.9% growth, leftover CZ bus-desk-at-door-4, leftover 本地宝 ¥28 Shantou bus, leftover lib/airports.json Shantou-as-the-runway-city, or leftover military 空军外砂 as the public product.

Typical delay mix from the same editorial snapshot — not a live feed. Current operations are on Overview.

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Typical cancellations0 min · 0%

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No Flighty-reported operational issues for this airport.

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Status response Sep 21, 23:34 UTC · Confirm live conditions with official sources before travel.

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